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they had to do this by e elect trail means. they had to win an election. they weren't confidence about that. there was an incredible a. para military violence that went in to. and the results very uneven. thag how they went out of the union. what proceeded that? when you're in a meeting and everything unanimous. don't you get suspicious? i do. there was a lot of back story to how thigh pulled it off. other places the back story showed. in alabama the up country representative just charged they were being run out of the union with that democracy was being completely violated. people in virginia looked tat and said no ordinary farmer has voted for this. they have run us out of the union without the consideration of democratic process. i think it's interesting it's revealing what democracy was and innocent a slave regime in 1860. they called it a democracy. they sometimes often made the case what they wanted was a republican and democracy was mob of course sei. it was part of the reason they wanted out of the union. they didn't like the direction it was going
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in fact, there were no elections of substance. ultimate authority resided with the king and parliament. when colonists complained that the political leaders were out of touch, it was not a rhetorical flourish. no taxation without representation would ultimately become the rallying crime that provoked a war against the most formidable military power on earth. given our current sorry economic circumstances, we could also remember that the executions of our forefathers were made on the half of a desire to forge a nation out of a group of colonies that even then comprised quite disparate interests. planters, farmers, merchants, slaves, indentured servants and persecuted minorities of all stripes. even after the nation was forged, tough times endured well into the succeeding century but the situation i'm in a common purpose to endure and to succeed. to those who fought, to forge a system of government, nothing was more important than the maintenance of that new system. and here i'm going to close by segueing to something that might giv
in fact, there were no elections of substance. ultimate authority resided with the king and parliament. when colonists complained that the political leaders were out of touch, it was not a rhetorical flourish. no taxation without representation would ultimately become the rallying crime that provoked a war against the most formidable military power on earth. given our current sorry economic circumstances, we could also remember that the executions of our forefathers were made on the half of a...
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>>> author of numerous books on abraham lincoln recalls the four months between president lincoln's election and a number of 1860 to his inauguration in march, 1861. during this time the president was pressured by republicans and democrats throughout the country to maintain the union. it's a little over an hour. >> welcome to the virtual book signing here at the abraham lincoln bookshop as always. i'm daniel weinberg and i am pleased to have you here. it is a lincoln civil war book signing at work. it's a wonderful way for you to build a first edition signed library with all of the books coming out over the next few years in the lincoln bicentennial which is upon us but also the war that follows the heels there are so many books coming out and we are going to try to weed through them and have the authors on the show so you can see the best research going and also you have to weed out others that you don't have to have always. there are too many books out there. >> i say that as a book dealer we adjust them for book signings and that is what distinguishes us. if you are watching live, we enco
>>> author of numerous books on abraham lincoln recalls the four months between president lincoln's election and a number of 1860 to his inauguration in march, 1861. during this time the president was pressured by republicans and democrats throughout the country to maintain the union. it's a little over an hour. >> welcome to the virtual book signing here at the abraham lincoln bookshop as always. i'm daniel weinberg and i am pleased to have you here. it is a lincoln civil war...
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, it is external because of the people who get elected. >> when our nation separated from church and state. what are your thoughts and using the bible, and the words "so help me god" used? >> not only did george bible, but have a after his inauguration, the congress voted to have a church service. it went across to sit paul's chapel in new york board -- they went across to st. paul's chapel in new york, and had a service. there was no first amendment by the at that time. -- at that time. what has happened now is that congress does not vote in these things. presidents choose what to do. since roosevelt's time, presidents have usually gone to a church service on the morning of the inauguration or just before the inauguration. that is personal to them. they choose whatever bible to hold. just like members of congress can choose a family bible or historical bible. when the first muslim was sworn in, he was provided with thomas jefferson's copy of the koran to be sworn in. people choose something appropriate to them. "so help me god" is another issue. i do not think there is anything wron
, it is external because of the people who get elected. >> when our nation separated from church and state. what are your thoughts and using the bible, and the words "so help me god" used? >> not only did george bible, but have a after his inauguration, the congress voted to have a church service. it went across to sit paul's chapel in new york board -- they went across to st. paul's chapel in new york, and had a service. there was no first amendment by the at that time....
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is on the verge of another four years in the white house, four years without worrying about another election campaign. we're joined live from california now with professor algore. welcome. how has michelle obama approached the role? >> i think she is doing a good job. i could give her an a-plus. we study the first ladies and we study women, actually. so we get a sense of how politics operates on another sort of sphere. and one of the capacities that the first lady, the role of first lady, has is that it offers the person who steps into it the chance to be a symbol. to have a kind of symbolizing function. so if she chooses, the first lady can decide whether she wants to be the face of her husband's administration. personifying it and sending out messages that are psychological and emotional in nature. and i think michelle obama has done that. >> you wonder about, you know, a sense of freedom for the second term. you see her, her new hairdo. do first ladies tend to express more freedom during the second term, once a campaign is over? is there less pressure to conform? >> oh, i think there's a
is on the verge of another four years in the white house, four years without worrying about another election campaign. we're joined live from california now with professor algore. welcome. how has michelle obama approached the role? >> i think she is doing a good job. i could give her an a-plus. we study the first ladies and we study women, actually. so we get a sense of how politics operates on another sort of sphere. and one of the capacities that the first lady, the role of first lady,...
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why was it a $6 billion election? we've got to take on the democracy issues. >> so if tee or four of the 51 docrats who could win for you next tuesday desert you, betray you, abandon you, what will you do? >> well, we only need 51, so four can go, actually, five can go because vice president biden has said he supports these things. we'll see. so you if you had 50 plus him, there you have the new rules for the next congress. >> but if you lose next tuesday you have as you've already said based upon the past almost no chance of anything happening in congress. >> and we need to reset, we will know who's who even though they won't publicize that, but we will know who's who. and we need to look at primaries. we needo look at saying, "guess what? we're not going to get involved at all, none of the progressives. so if you have a republican takeover in that seat that's the way it goes. we will fight it out in the primaries. we can't roll over," to use your words, strong words i might add. we have to show that we can make a di
why was it a $6 billion election? we've got to take on the democracy issues. >> so if tee or four of the 51 docrats who could win for you next tuesday desert you, betray you, abandon you, what will you do? >> well, we only need 51, so four can go, actually, five can go because vice president biden has said he supports these things. we'll see. so you if you had 50 plus him, there you have the new rules for the next congress. >> but if you lose next tuesday you have as you've...
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president abandoned platform on which he had just been elected. lincoln, they declared, must gairn tee that slavery could in the future could expand to all or part of the federal territories. and, by the way, not only those territories, currently held but also territories yet to be acquired.pp and that demand was made with an eye on eventually acquiring cuba, parts of central america and other part of the caribbean, which were expected to be turned in to slave-holding territories and slave-holding eventually states. as lincoln did not agree to do this, they said, they would very likely move to join the confederacy as well. well, lincoln about party refused to exceed these demands. sparked all-out war, these four upper south states did choose sides. they concluded that this war between a slave labor confederacy and free labor union was going to eventually and inbelie involve to a war over slavery itself. in a war like that the leader of the four slave states decided they stand with the sister slave state in the defense behalf they like to call thei
president abandoned platform on which he had just been elected. lincoln, they declared, must gairn tee that slavery could in the future could expand to all or part of the federal territories. and, by the way, not only those territories, currently held but also territories yet to be acquired.pp and that demand was made with an eye on eventually acquiring cuba, parts of central america and other part of the caribbean, which were expected to be turned in to slave-holding territories and...
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>> i think you cannot deny that we have made tremendous progress and the election of -- re- election of president obama is another milestone moment in civil rights history, but we still have a long way to go as far as racial reconciliation in america, building what dr. king called the beloved community. tomorrow, yes, it is a milestone moment, not only for the president, but for america's quest for racial reconciliation. >> we have two experts. john mcconnell worked with george bush on his inaugural address. terry edmonds spent eight years working with bill clinton. we talked about the reference to dr. king. your former boss making reference to abraham lincoln in his second inaugural address. >> we will get that ready in just a moment. let's go to the phones. curtis from akron, ohio. >> thank you for taking my call. it is a pleasure to be on the air. i had the privilege, when i was 20 years old, i was on the executive board of kent state democrats. me and some of the members of the executive board, as well that members of ksu did attend the inauguration of president clinton back in 1
>> i think you cannot deny that we have made tremendous progress and the election of -- re- election of president obama is another milestone moment in civil rights history, but we still have a long way to go as far as racial reconciliation in america, building what dr. king called the beloved community. tomorrow, yes, it is a milestone moment, not only for the president, but for america's quest for racial reconciliation. >> we have two experts. john mcconnell worked with george bush...
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the public itself needed to engage on financial reform, take a bigger interest, make it an issue with elected officials. i have some policy recommendations at the end that i hope people will again take seriously. >> he'd been talking about this dream he had. tap about it for years that the american dream and then it becomes history and hit him in detroit just a few months before entire cabal, i have a dream that america will someday realize the sprint to pose in the declaration of independence. so i think he was just inspired by the moment. this >> now, update on preparations for president to bomb his on monday. representatives of the committees, u.s. capitol police and military spoke with reporters at the national press club for a little less than an hour. >> thank you very much. thank you for the press club for posting today. this is going to be a little bit of a dance as they run through this chronologically. as you can imagine, there's different players involved in the events taking place over the next three days. my name is trained for. that's brent colburn. i'm the communications direct
the public itself needed to engage on financial reform, take a bigger interest, make it an issue with elected officials. i have some policy recommendations at the end that i hope people will again take seriously. >> he'd been talking about this dream he had. tap about it for years that the american dream and then it becomes history and hit him in detroit just a few months before entire cabal, i have a dream that america will someday realize the sprint to pose in the declaration of...
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women brought him into power with this election, got him re-elected. it will be nice to see a woman quoted once in an inaugural. >> thank you so much. fascinating stuff. eva longoria was the co chair of the president's re-election campaign. he's now co chair of the presidential inaugural committee. she's becoming a power player, raising a lot of money for the president. and her journey from actress to activist. >> i did all this as an american, as a citizen of this great great country. and because i'm an actress doesn't mean i'm not literal on the subjects i talk about. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. [ male announcer ] end your long week... with a weekend getaway. save up to forty percent on all weekend hotel stays. book by january thirty first at hiltonanyweekend.co
women brought him into power with this election, got him re-elected. it will be nice to see a woman quoted once in an inaugural. >> thank you so much. fascinating stuff. eva longoria was the co chair of the president's re-election campaign. he's now co chair of the presidential inaugural committee. she's becoming a power player, raising a lot of money for the president. and her journey from actress to activist. >> i did all this as an american, as a citizen of this great great...
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especially after re-election. your first-term policies seem to have been validated, that you look at those results and you think you're all powerful. the famous example in recent history is george w. bush. in 2005, remember he came out and did that press conference and said he had political capital and meant to spend it and the first thing he tried to do was pass a plan to reform social security that was just destroyed by the democrats, and then katrina happened. and his presidency was over by the end of 2005, at least the second term. so, you know, i spent a lot of time reporting on this the last year, talking to white house people, and they were very acutely aware of the dangers hidden in a second term. and i think the -- you know, i think what they'll be looking for is not overinterpreting that mandate, putting out an agenda one, that he campaigned on. not doing things he didn't talk about in the campaign, but two, trying to find some kind of bipartisan compromise in a congress that is very polarized. >> this i
especially after re-election. your first-term policies seem to have been validated, that you look at those results and you think you're all powerful. the famous example in recent history is george w. bush. in 2005, remember he came out and did that press conference and said he had political capital and meant to spend it and the first thing he tried to do was pass a plan to reform social security that was just destroyed by the democrats, and then katrina happened. and his presidency was over by...
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women brought him into power with this election, got him re-elected. it will be nice to see a woman quoted once in an inaugural. >> thank you so much. fascinating stuff. eva longoria was the co-chair of the president's re-election campaign. he's now co-chair of the presidential inaugural committee. she's becoming a power player, raising a lot of money for the president. and her journey from actress to activist. >> i did all this as an american, as a citizen of this great, great country. and because i'm an actress doesn't mean i'm not literate on the subjects i talk about. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months, and keeps it clearer through 6 months. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events, including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders,
women brought him into power with this election, got him re-elected. it will be nice to see a woman quoted once in an inaugural. >> thank you so much. fascinating stuff. eva longoria was the co-chair of the president's re-election campaign. he's now co-chair of the presidential inaugural committee. she's becoming a power player, raising a lot of money for the president. and her journey from actress to activist. >> i did all this as an american, as a citizen of this great, great...
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i think this is what his base wanted to hear, what the people who elected him wanted to hear. he's tired of trying to make nice nice with the congress. he wanted to say what he believes. lou: are you saying to hell with republicans is what was in his mind? to hell with half of the country that didn't vote for him? >> this is his vision of the country. i think he wants to be the liberal answer to reagan. >> michael? >> well, if he's tired of working with congress, he didn't have the energy to start with then because he didn't try very hard, and this did strike me, lou, as a kind of joyless event today. i mean, there was a -- of course he's somewhat somber, sort of transfer of power, queue you know in herely, but in reality, there was a scolding tone to a lot of this speech, and it's just this america has failed, america has not lived up to these ideals. that's the undercurrent. i mean, i find that disheartening because i think this is the greatest country, and for him to lecture us we're not good enough, it's demoralizing. lou: it -- your comment about joy, not much of it was e
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after election year for 40 years, getting that done is a very big deal. americans want that. they've got to implement it. they've got to figure out directions to make this thing work, but getting it passed and moving is a big deal. failures, for me, you know, i'm an old political hand so it's hard for me not to look at the politics of this. but i feel like the president did a really good job substantively while not doing the bhes job politically. i think the style of how they operated as a white house -- i used to always say, it was like the presidency is the fastest, best ferrari there is and they drove it like a chrysler k car. you know, they didn't use the power of the office to really attract people, to paint vivid pictures and to get things done. i want to see more of that. in a long-term issue, i think the president ought to be focused on american competitiveness, to broaden opportunity so we can all participate in a growing km i. >> margaret hoover, i had a checklist of what i believe to be the five biggest challenges h effaces. reforming immigrati
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we hope to elect many more women to the congress in 2014. if we didn't have so many women in the congress, we never would have had the first woman speaker of the house. thank you, emily's list, for that. just listening to the baptist choir, talking abotu 2016 and our hopes from 2014 -- you ain't seen nothing yet. thank you, emily's list, for having strength in numbers for women and helping to change the playing field. i promise you this. if we reduced the role of money in politics, overturned citizens united, encourage the level of civility in politics, increase stability, lower the money, we will change the environment in which politics is conducted and we will elect many more women to public office. that is a very good thing for our country. think year, emily's list. we are emily and we ain't seen nothing yet. thank you all. [applause] >> are you emily? >> hello. i'm elizabeth warren. [applause] about 25 years ago, i was a young mother around i got a solicitation letter from a group of women who said they were getting organized to get more
we hope to elect many more women to the congress in 2014. if we didn't have so many women in the congress, we never would have had the first woman speaker of the house. thank you, emily's list, for that. just listening to the baptist choir, talking abotu 2016 and our hopes from 2014 -- you ain't seen nothing yet. thank you, emily's list, for having strength in numbers for women and helping to change the playing field. i promise you this. if we reduced the role of money in politics, overturned...
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he's up for re-election next year. we're going to the state house now. [applause] [applause] >> please be seated. governor sandoval, we welcome wl you to the chambers, and we look forward to your message. thank you. he thank c you.hed membs of t madam speaker, mr. president, distinguished members of the legislature, honorable justices of the nevada supreme court, constitutional officers, senator myellow honored guests, my fellow nevadans, for nearly 150 years, governors before me havey stood in front of this body ande delivered their state of thedre the persal deliv the personal delivery of a alni biannual message has become onee of ourd most honored tradition. i'm proud to be here tonight to continue this tradition along with my wife, the first lady, kathleen, and my three children, marissa, t madeleine, and james. thank you for your love and support. [applause] i want to take a moment and pause and remember two i had extraordinary nevadans, both of whom i had the honor of serving with in the nevada legislature. genefi segarbloom who devoted her entire
he's up for re-election next year. we're going to the state house now. [applause] [applause] >> please be seated. governor sandoval, we welcome wl you to the chambers, and we look forward to your message. thank you. he thank c you.hed membs of t madam speaker, mr. president, distinguished members of the legislature, honorable justices of the nevada supreme court, constitutional officers, senator myellow honored guests, my fellow nevadans, for nearly 150 years, governors before me havey...
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>> the day after the election. i didn't get word of mouth, and my name is out there, being a travel agent, and word of mouth, which went on and on. -- we went on and on. >> you took a bus? >> we left on january 19 at 4:00, and limit your january 20 at 11:00 -- we made it here january 20 at 11. >>, to are you charging -- are they charging for hotel rooms? -- how much are they charging you for hotel rooms? >> $220. we went out little bit because we have a tour bus. >> you're here "for years ago. how does this compare? >> it is more organized. we got off the bus this morning, and we walked. four years ago, we were here at 3:00 in the morning. this year, we were here at about 6:30. >> four years ago, not as organized. were you able to get as close? does the crowd at a different? what is the crowd is a little bit different. it is not so congested as the four years ago. everybody is not here now, but a water years ago, i was a bit closer because i was here at 3:30. >> best of luck to all of you, ladies. , for talking to
>> the day after the election. i didn't get word of mouth, and my name is out there, being a travel agent, and word of mouth, which went on and on. -- we went on and on. >> you took a bus? >> we left on january 19 at 4:00, and limit your january 20 at 11:00 -- we made it here january 20 at 11. >>, to are you charging -- are they charging for hotel rooms? -- how much are they charging you for hotel rooms? >> $220. we went out little bit because we have a tour bus....
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a very small club, those re-elected. a smaller club, though, those re-elected with less than 50%. >> and the flags waving on the national mall, as we prepare for the introduction of the president of the united states. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, barack h. obama. senate sergeant at arms, paris w. denner. the house sergeant at arms, paul irving. senator charles schumer. senator lamar alexander. the speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner. senate majority leader, harry reid. and house majority leader, eric cantor. and house minority leader, nancy pelosi. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> justice sotomayer greeting everyone on the podium. there he is with chief justice roberts. and justice kennedy, as well. in a few minutes, we'll be hearing from the chairman of the inaugural committee, senator charles schumer of new york. he will introduced myrlies ev evers-williams. >> of course, he's 51 years old now. let's look at the big screen one more time. >> the honorable charles e. schume
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it's not about gains before the next election. it's gains with our credit worthiness long-term. >> i think it's important to point out that one of the reasons leadership may be able to shorten the years to balance is buzz of the recent tax increases. so it's not just a structural change in what we're doing, it's that there have been tax increases. so if taxes were lowered again, then that might change the picture. i think we haven't been given enough assurances that once you reach the balance within 10 years, that you stay at balance or near balance and don't just bounce off the bottomed on go back up to deficit. because it's possible you could balance at year 10 and then have deficits going on until year 20 or 25. it's important to understand those structural issues. >> do you think republican leaders right now are in position where they should be accommodated the president and be part of his agenda or just standing as a bulwark against it? >> unfortunately, i think our strategy right now is to play rope-a-dope until 2014. i thin
it's not about gains before the next election. it's gains with our credit worthiness long-term. >> i think it's important to point out that one of the reasons leadership may be able to shorten the years to balance is buzz of the recent tax increases. so it's not just a structural change in what we're doing, it's that there have been tax increases. so if taxes were lowered again, then that might change the picture. i think we haven't been given enough assurances that once you reach the...
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things people voted on in this election. there is a cry out there for some movement on gun control because this senseless violence is touching everybody. >> what i find so baffling is the apparent power that the nra wield, for example, in the political system in america. compared to the amount of money they put in and the amount of membership they have, i don't really understand why they have such power or why so many politicians at senior level are so frightened of them. >> jim comes from state where guns are a huge issue. the truth is it's been part of the american culture and tradition for a long time particularly in rural areas. hunting, gun ownership, parents passing the tradition of hunting down to children. that's been part of our culture. on the other hand, we have in some of our communities real problems with violence. in chicago we've had a terrible time with youth violence and gun violence. we have to find a way to reconcile those things. one thing that gives me hope is i see 90%, 85, 90% of americans say we shoul
things people voted on in this election. there is a cry out there for some movement on gun control because this senseless violence is touching everybody. >> what i find so baffling is the apparent power that the nra wield, for example, in the political system in america. compared to the amount of money they put in and the amount of membership they have, i don't really understand why they have such power or why so many politicians at senior level are so frightened of them. >> jim...
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>> well, look, at this point, people -- we just came through a very contentious election. and there is still americans who perhaps are unhappy the selection of majority by the americans. as you know, on many other issues, country is simply divided. we are divide aid long political lines, cultural lines, ethnic lines, you name the lines, we are divided upon them. i think more americans would like to see this president succeed on those big issue, getting this country back on its feet economically and the think the rest will follow. >> the poll shows it will not be an easy road for the republicans? >> not at all. republicans don't want president obama with the policies they have seen to succeed. they think the policies will hurt country. republicans don't want to do that. that's why republicans just voted against barack obama do they want a president to succeed? would they like to see obama headed in a different direction than he has been and make the country successful? yes. they don't want the country to fail. they don't want their president to fail. but these policies that
>> well, look, at this point, people -- we just came through a very contentious election. and there is still americans who perhaps are unhappy the selection of majority by the americans. as you know, on many other issues, country is simply divided. we are divide aid long political lines, cultural lines, ethnic lines, you name the lines, we are divided upon them. i think more americans would like to see this president succeed on those big issue, getting this country back on its feet...
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there were swing elections for one year we are electing lots of folks who are liberal and two years later, others who are conservative. i think it creates a situation in congress that is more combustible. you see far fewer deals, far fewer efforts to get together and do anything together. it is very rare now for both parties to act in unison. 20 years ago, it was much more common. even further back, you think of tip o'neill and ronald reagan getting together and selling big issues but that does not happen anymore. i think that is in part due to some of the elections we have had where people are really swinging back and forth and we are getting a divided congress. it creates a crazy atmosphere were nothing gets done in congress and both sides are fighting all the time and i think the public is absolutely fed up. i covered campaigns myself and talk to voters again and again and i hear that people are sick and tired of it. it is leading to these elections where we are getting lots of new people in every few years including this frantic turnover in congress. it is adding to the atmosphere tha
there were swing elections for one year we are electing lots of folks who are liberal and two years later, others who are conservative. i think it creates a situation in congress that is more combustible. you see far fewer deals, far fewer efforts to get together and do anything together. it is very rare now for both parties to act in unison. 20 years ago, it was much more common. even further back, you think of tip o'neill and ronald reagan getting together and selling big issues but that does...
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. >> get romney elected. it's very simple. >> can you at the federal level, as the president's proposed today fix electoral law? can you do it at the federal level, or does the constitution preempt the federal government from getting into state election law? >> well, right. the states do have a fair amount of latitude in the way that they organize their elections. but we do have a civil rights division. i think that eric holder, or whether or not he stays, i think there will be more justice department oversight of what the states are doing, and i think there should be. i was very happy to see the president say we're not going to tolerate that. and i think it may be a place where it's mostly bully pulpit, but there is a role for the attorney general and for the justice department as well. they have to be overseeing exactly what these states are doing and what the impact, because we know why they're doing it. >> can they do it, david -- >> should make the case it's a civil rights denial when you have to weight
. >> get romney elected. it's very simple. >> can you at the federal level, as the president's proposed today fix electoral law? can you do it at the federal level, or does the constitution preempt the federal government from getting into state election law? >> well, right. the states do have a fair amount of latitude in the way that they organize their elections. but we do have a civil rights division. i think that eric holder, or whether or not he stays, i think there will...
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>> [clyburn] well the primary election was, uh, sort of interesting. um, uh, you knew, uh, from the very beginning, uh, that it was going to be historical. you had, um, an african american running, uh, that seemed to be a little bit different from african americans who had run before. you had a woman running that seemed a little bit different from the women who had run before. and so the conventional wisdom was that, uh, this was going to be a change election. >> look, i'm not running because of long-held ambitions, i'm not running because i think it's my turn. i'm running because of what dr. king called, "the fierce urgency of now." "the fierce urgency of now." >> throughout that year, the obama campaign assembled a nationwide network of dedicated volunteers, and they broke fundraising records by mastering the internet. early on obama trailed senator hillary clinton by large margins in national polls, and struggled against doubts and criticism. >> early on, supporting senator obama was a somewhat lonely position within the democratic caucus. it was a
>> [clyburn] well the primary election was, uh, sort of interesting. um, uh, you knew, uh, from the very beginning, uh, that it was going to be historical. you had, um, an african american running, uh, that seemed to be a little bit different from african americans who had run before. you had a woman running that seemed a little bit different from the women who had run before. and so the conventional wisdom was that, uh, this was going to be a change election. >> look, i'm not...
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we hope to elect many more women to the congress. if we did not have so many women in congress up till now, we would not have the first woman speaker of the house and. thank you to emily's list for that. listening to the shiloh baptist church choir and taking our lead from them, when i saw the video and heard them tell me that to 16, and our own hopes for two fourteen -- you ain't seen nothing yet. thank you, emily's list, for having women lead the way, for helping to change the playing field. a promise you this. but with emily's list is held, if we reduce the role of money and politics, overturn the citizens united and the rest, and increase the level of civility in politics, we will change the environment in which politics is conducted. we will elect many more women to public office. that is a very good thing for our country. thank you, emily's list. we are emily, and we ain't seen nothing yet. thank you all. [applause] >> a look at the jefferson memorial. president obama's public inauguration as tomorrow, which happens to be alloc
we hope to elect many more women to the congress. if we did not have so many women in congress up till now, we would not have the first woman speaker of the house and. thank you to emily's list for that. listening to the shiloh baptist church choir and taking our lead from them, when i saw the video and heard them tell me that to 16, and our own hopes for two fourteen -- you ain't seen nothing yet. thank you, emily's list, for having women lead the way, for helping to change the playing field....
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unlike president obama is looking at the elections in 2014 and midterm elections. he doesn't have a lot of time before he is truly a lame duck and he knows that. shepard: so there is work to be done. we begin by swearing him in this morning in washington. it will be quite an event. everybody who is anybody is here. except as you mentioned some from the bush family who stayed back home in texas. our expectation is, that we'll get started here pretty quick. they're going to follow tradition from start to finish. >> yes. it is a day full of much ceremony. there is order to this day. it really doesn't change. there is going to be a luncheon. as you know, 200 place settings were set last night in statuary hall for a luncheon for all the elected officials who will be afforded the best tickets up on stage. they will be lunching with the president and leaders in congress and afterwards. all of this is something that you have to go through, whether you like it or not. there are going to be incredible gifts given e to the president and vice president. shepard: nancy pelosi's
unlike president obama is looking at the elections in 2014 and midterm elections. he doesn't have a lot of time before he is truly a lame duck and he knows that. shepard: so there is work to be done. we begin by swearing him in this morning in washington. it will be quite an event. everybody who is anybody is here. except as you mentioned some from the bush family who stayed back home in texas. our expectation is, that we'll get started here pretty quick. they're going to follow tradition from...
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the tomb of frederick douglas three days after the election. this is a world spinning away from the gravity of centuries where the grave of a fugitive slave has become an altar. this is the tomb of a man born as chattel who taught himself to read in secret, scraping the letters in his name with chalk on wood. now, on the anvil flat stone, a campaign button fills the o in douglas. the button says obama. this is the tomb of a man in chains who left his fingerprints on the slave breaker's throat so the whip would never carve his back again. now, a labor union t-shirt drapes itself across the stone offered up by a nurse, a janitor, a bus driver,. a sticker on the sleeve says, i voted today. this is the tomb of a man who rolled his call to arms off the press, peering through spectacles of the abolitionist headline. now a newspaper spreads above his dates of birth and death. the headline says, obama wins. this is the stillness at the heart of the storm that began in the body of the first slave dragged aboard the first ship to america. yellow leaves d
the tomb of frederick douglas three days after the election. this is a world spinning away from the gravity of centuries where the grave of a fugitive slave has become an altar. this is the tomb of a man born as chattel who taught himself to read in secret, scraping the letters in his name with chalk on wood. now, on the anvil flat stone, a campaign button fills the o in douglas. the button says obama. this is the tomb of a man in chains who left his fingerprints on the slave breaker's throat...
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the republican is elected in 2016 you will see some dismantling of certain things. the saw with george bush after ronald reagan. it does not happen very often in history. there's not much of a crowd left at all. matter where you figure in politically you cannot argue that president obama is an incredible writer an incredible speaker. very much appreciated around these parts. folks now moving on to the next stage of this. it is along pennsylvania avenue. the parade they're looking forward to. the first family finishes that quick lunch. about 45 minutes. all of that food that is making me so hungry earlier in our coverage. they arrived very early this morning. kind of like we did here at the national mall for our coverage. they brought along with them some young people from around chicago. that is a recurring theme. i want to bring young people want to have them participate in democracy. they are very much taken. >> figure from chicago wanted to show these young people what politics is all about. what chicagoans are all about. frankly what is possible for young man fr
the republican is elected in 2016 you will see some dismantling of certain things. the saw with george bush after ronald reagan. it does not happen very often in history. there's not much of a crowd left at all. matter where you figure in politically you cannot argue that president obama is an incredible writer an incredible speaker. very much appreciated around these parts. folks now moving on to the next stage of this. it is along pennsylvania avenue. the parade they're looking forward to....
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i think a regular election could produce a very unstable result. i mean, it's a two-term, it's a two-round system, um, and so it's quite plausible that you'd have the first round you'd have 25 candidates that in the first round none of them would get more than 10% of the vote, that you'd then have a second round between two candidates, neither of whom had more than 10% of the vote. mathematically, one of them would win, but he'd win with a constituencies of only 10% of the country. and that kind of result probably would not be enough to hold the country together. i think the concern about corruption in the government is accurate, real and valid, but it does miss the point that it's as much corruption as formal institutions that hold that country together. um, you know, karzai has built an effective patronage network that allows him to exert a significant degree of influence across sectarian lines in that country and across geographic lines in the country. and formal institutions of the kind that have been built not without some success since 2001 s
i think a regular election could produce a very unstable result. i mean, it's a two-term, it's a two-round system, um, and so it's quite plausible that you'd have the first round you'd have 25 candidates that in the first round none of them would get more than 10% of the vote, that you'd then have a second round between two candidates, neither of whom had more than 10% of the vote. mathematically, one of them would win, but he'd win with a constituencies of only 10% of the country. and that...
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that probably cost him the election, certainly with women and younger voters. and i think it will cost other folks, as well. >> and the polling is showing an expanding favorability for abortion rights, and republicans always do this. it is never confused with abortion. they pretend that women when they come to this choice, they assume that women do so happily, gleefully, that it is a light thing to do. but this is support for abortion rights that is even stronger than exists in roe v. wade. >> that is right, i don't know, i feel like there are too many folks in office trying to play politics with this issue. i don't know if its their own particular point of view. and what we see consistently, it is so fascinating to me at planned parenthood -- they can't make that decision for every woman in america, that no one can walk in another woman's shoes. that is what this polling is showing. what we saw in the state of mississippi when they defeated overwhelmingly an amendment that would have created this amendment. that is really where the american people are. and fra
that probably cost him the election, certainly with women and younger voters. and i think it will cost other folks, as well. >> and the polling is showing an expanding favorability for abortion rights, and republicans always do this. it is never confused with abortion. they pretend that women when they come to this choice, they assume that women do so happily, gleefully, that it is a light thing to do. but this is support for abortion rights that is even stronger than exists in roe v....
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for example, jim messina, in charge of the obama re-election campaign puts out a letter, among other things, saying take a look at the president's plan to reduce gun violence and stand with him in support. wayne lapierre executive vice president of the nra issues a fundraising letter saying this. i warned you this day was coming and now it's here. it's not about protecting your children. it's not about stopping crime. it's about banning your guns period. so what are we seeing here? a real political campaign. >> on the one side you have the grassroots organization that the obama for america team use. now, they can't coordinate with the white house, wolf, on this, but they are using all of their apparatus to get out their grass root supporters because what they are trying to do is mobilize voters in much the same way that the nra has done over the years, which is make people who are for some kind of gun regulation, single issue voters and come out and pressure members of congress who may be wavering in gun states and say to them, you know, we want something done. on the other side is t
for example, jim messina, in charge of the obama re-election campaign puts out a letter, among other things, saying take a look at the president's plan to reduce gun violence and stand with him in support. wayne lapierre executive vice president of the nra issues a fundraising letter saying this. i warned you this day was coming and now it's here. it's not about protecting your children. it's not about stopping crime. it's about banning your guns period. so what are we seeing here? a real...
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in two years he's got an election. in two years he has that same awesome machine he just had that helped him get elected president. he can use that, possibly, to win the house. he'd run, he could run the tables. and this is his opportunity to keep republicans divided. i wouldn't be surprised if he just kept campaigning for the next two years. >> a lot of promises were made four years ago. a lot of promises not kept. a lot were. john, can you take a look. >> not always fair to judge a president that way. if you're president or worked in the white house, circumstances change, new things arise, new crises, new challenges. one way to judge a president, as he enters his second term to look at what he said when he began his first. one of the parts of the first inaugural address that drew some criticism. people thought the president was being too lofty or full of himself. we will harness the suns and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. but let's get to the specifics of it. to van's point, we haven't
in two years he's got an election. in two years he has that same awesome machine he just had that helped him get elected president. he can use that, possibly, to win the house. he'd run, he could run the tables. and this is his opportunity to keep republicans divided. i wouldn't be surprised if he just kept campaigning for the next two years. >> a lot of promises were made four years ago. a lot of promises not kept. a lot were. john, can you take a look. >> not always fair to judge...